Obama discloses his bundlers, and finds one from NY is accused of fraud

A Brooklyn-based bundler named Abake Assongba donated, along with her husband, $50,000 to President Barack Obama's campaign. Assongba, it turns out, also stands accused by a Florida businessman of stealing $650,000.

Anyone can file a lawsuit and Assongba hasn't been convicted of anything. But the lawsuit isn't helpful to the campaign, which is the only one this year that has released a list of its bundlers and which, notably, is relying on many different ones than it did four years ago.

Obama campaign officials won't say if they'll return donations from New York bundler Abake Assongba, who is accused in a lawsuit of stealing $650,000. [Jack Gillum]

2013

Thompson is rehiring Geoff Garin and Doc Sweitzer, but is the campaign taking the right lessons from 2009? [Kate Taylor]

"Bill Thompson is a weasel for trying to squirm out of a half-million-dollar fine" [Daily News]

"I see myself particularly in the Mike Bloomberg mold," said Tom Allon, who is considering switching to the Republican Party. [Michael Howard Saul]

Flasbhack: Allon also described himself as a "Cuomo Democrat" and found a few points of disagreement with the current Bloomberg administration. [Observer]

NY-06

The Working Families Party makes its endorsement decision today. [Chris Bragg]

NY-13

Adriano Espaillat announced he'll run against Rep. Rangel, with Keith Wright, Ydanis Rodriguez and Robert Jackson in the room, during a meeting of the Barack Obama Democratic Club of Upper Manhattan. [Carla Zanoni]

Espaillat reportedly pledged to support the club's founder, Mark Levine, as his successor, which is angering Assemblyman Guillermo Linares. [David Seifman]